Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand
Why am I here? What is my purpose?
How can I live in alignment with who I was created to be?
People are waking up to realize the life that was promised to them does not exist, nor does it begin to provide fulfillment. Join Lisa McGuire each week for interviews with intentional leaders who have not been afraid to reinvent themselves. Solo episodes are about growing to experience "so much more" and the impact of becoming your legendary self when living by your design.
Recent Episodes
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Aug. 4, 2026
Identity Compression: Why Success Can Make It Harder to Recognize Yourself with Lisa McGuire
What happens when the role that made you successful becomes too small for the person you've become? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand, Lisa McGuire introduces Identity Compression: the gradual process of becoming so identified with one successful role, title, or contribution that the rest of who you are has less room to breathe. It tends to show up as a byproduct of succeeding, not failing. The more dependable, capable, and respected you become, the more the world org
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July 28, 2026
Fear of Expansion: What Happens When You Reach a Ceiling You've Never Hit Before with Lisa McGuire
What if the opportunity you've been working toward finally arrives, and instead of stepping forward, you hesitate? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand, Lisa McGuire explores the fear of expansion: the resistance that surfaces when your life, leadership, visibility, or success begins to grow beyond what your current identity knows how to hold. Fear of expansion rarely looks like fear. It can sound responsible, showing up as overthinking, procrastination, perfectionism, u
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July 21, 2026
When Your Body Knows Before Your Mind Does with Lisa McGuire
There are moments when nothing appears to be wrong, yet something inside you has already changed. You walk into a room and know you no longer belong there. You sit down to create and suddenly cannot access the words that were clear only moments before. You feel tired in a way sleep cannot fix. You withdraw, cancel plans, stop posting, or become unusually busy doing everything except the one thing that matters most. That is not always laziness, indecision, or a lack of discipline. Sometimes, y
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July 14, 2026
ArchitectHer: The Room Where Women Prepare to Build the Next Era with Dr. Don Barden
What happens after a woman has already achieved success? She is leading. Carrying responsibility. Making decisions. Holding teams, families, businesses, and futures together. From the outside, it may look like she has arrived. But internally, she may be standing at a different kind of threshold. It's one where success still works, but no longer feels like the whole truth. In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose, and Personal Brand, Lisa McGuire continues her conversation with Dr. Don Barden, a
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July 7, 2026
The Future of Leadership Is Already Here with Don Barden, PhD
What still works may no longer be what the world needs next. In this powerful first part of a two-part conversation, Lisa McGuire welcomes back Dr. Don Barden, researcher behind Here Come the Girls and founder of ArchitectHer, to explore the leadership shift already reshaping business, work, culture, and community. This conversation moves past the tired framing of men versus women and looks instead at an old leadership model losing its grip, giving way to one built on trust, human-centered dec
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June 30, 2026
The Identity You Outgrew Is Still Running the Show with Lisa McGuire
There is a pattern you keep calling a problem. The overthinking. The perfectionism. The proving. The people-pleasing. The sudden productivity spiral that somehow shows up right when you are about to do the brave thing. But what if the pattern is not proof that something is wrong with you? In this episode of Your Passion, Purpose and Personal Brand, Lisa McGuire names the quiet truth underneath the behaviors so many high-achieving leaders, founders, consultants, and entrepreneurs keep repeatin
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